Websites for Writers

Just recently, thanks to the holy Stumbleupon I’ve come across some great websites for us writers. Some weren’t intended so specifically but anyway.

One Word

The first I would like to introduce  would be ‘One Word’ found at www.oneword.com. It’s a simple little website, but a nice idea. Anyone can take part so long as they have the effort to press Go and endure 60 seconds of speedwriting, on a given word. It’s fantastic to break writer’s block because you are just writing about what they say, no prior research or thought. The word changes everyday–I think’s it’s Graffiti at the moment.

Wordle

This one’s pretty neat too. You post a whole body of text into a little box, hit submit and get a word cloud for your novel. The bigger the word, the more you use it. I noticed I use very few similes, but one hell of a lot of ‘Aedomir’s and ‘Seridon’s. It’s from my first draft, so there’s room to change. You can find it here.

I put it in alphaetical order and what I find interesting is I use a lot words upper and lower down, but not in the middle. Might have something to do with Aedomir and Seridon taking over the page. I hate that name ‘Seridon’ anyway, let’s hope draft two will see greater horizons!

Novelism

Finally, the site I created! After many long days getting the thing to work, I created a forum-based community for writers. People can post work, get feedback, review others’ and fit in with a community. They now all get their own blogs and I’m working on a photo gallery. The site is growing rapidly! Check it out Novelism.